SNAPSHOT One gunshot, one death, one moment out of time that irrevocably links eight minds in disparate parts of the world, putting them in each other’s lives, each other’s secrets, and in terrible danger. Ordinary people suddenly reborn as “Sensates.” (official synopsis via Blastr) There’s no escaping we now Continue Reading
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Can you bear The Strain a second time? (Season 2 trailer + poster)
SNAPSHOT A plane lands at John F. Kennedy International Airport with the lights off and the doors sealed. CDC epidemiologist Dr. Ephraim Goodweather (Corey Stoll), Dr. Nora Martinez, and their team are sent to investigate. On board they find 206 corpses (with no mark of blood loss) and four Continue Reading
Outlander: The Watch (S1, E13 review)
*SPOILERS AND LIFE NOT AS WE KNOW IT, JIM AHEAD* Ah life pre-Outlander the TV series was a kinder, gentler time. Many of us assumed, rather naively, much like Claire Randall Fraser (Catriona Balfe) herself even, that life in the eighteenth century was impossibly, delightfully romantic*, a near bucolic blur of Continue Reading
New aliens, philosophising and vengeance oh my! Falling Skies season 5 teaser trailer
“A man walks through his life. He stumbles, and he falls. At times, he thinks he cannot get up, but he does. Over, and over, until one day, when the man cannot hold up the sky falling all around him anymore. Then, he reaches his journey’s end. But there Continue Reading
Bless you! Orange is the New Black season 3 has a divinely good new poster (+ trailer)
It is a blessed third coming indeed. To the pounding sounds of Imagine Dragons’ “I’m So Sorry”, we’re reunited with the inmates of Litchfield State Penitentiary, all of whom are worthy of our time although some, so the poster suggests, are more deserving of our devotion than others. Netflix’s newly-released Continue Reading
Outlander: Lallybroch (S1, E12 review)
* SPOILERS AND CULTURAL CLASHES AHEAD * Jamie: “I need you to trust me here. My family. My land. My time. I am Laird and you are my lady. We should conduct ourselves as such.” Claire: “I’m not the meek and obedient type.” Soooo … it’s been a Continue Reading
Quake in fear invading cookies of Bon Bon for the Aveggies are here! (Sesame Street parody)
“People of Earth, prepare to be desserted! Mwahahaha!” You may have noticed that a small, low budget indie film by the name of Avengers: Age of Ultron is currently in cinemas, the latest in Marvel’s long line of super successful superhero movies to triumph at the box office. Even Continue Reading
Goodnight Westeros: The world’s most entertainingly bloodthirsty bedtime story
Who, as a child, didn’t love a lovely relaxing bedtime story right before you went off to join the Sandman in the Land of Nod? (A scary guy in himself, the very idea of whom gave me the heebie-jeebies as a child; neither he nor the land he inhabits actually sounds Continue Reading
Outlander: The Devil’s Mark (S1, E11 review)
*SPOILERS AND “WITCHES” AND EYE OF A NEWT AHEAD!* “Looks like I am going to a f**king BBQ!” (Geillis Duncan) It’s been obvious to every viewer of Outlander, and most acutely to its protagonist Claire Randall/Fraser (Caitriona Balfe), since the show began that we are not in Kansas anymore, Toto. Continue Reading
What are we doing here? The do-or-die mysteries of syfy’s Dark Matter (trailer)
SNAPSHOT In Dark Matter, the crew of a derelict spaceship is awakened from stasis with no memories of who they are or how they got on board. Facing threats at every turn, they have to work together to survive a voyage charged with vengeance, betrayal and hidden secrets. The Continue Reading